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ITH SIDE MESSENGER
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FREEPORT AND BELLMORE, N. Y., WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 30, U14
Every Wedaaada}
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Merrick
Bellmore
The Me««enger als9 circulates in Traeport. Maybe you will went to boy mm, sell to or exchange with the reader there.' Try Everybody's Coliunn.
Nr Braith- waite's !iiv^ =torps on Railroad Ave., or Michii. IV >, .Uam Street, Fi-eeport. L. I. 'tf
The schools closed Wednesday, De¬ cember 28, for the Christmas holidays and will open again on Monday, Jano> ary 4, 1915. The pupils in the grades at the Grove Street School held their exercises on Tuesday afternoon and
for Florida where he intends spending; the high scbool exercises were held on
the month of Janusry of hill health.
A new Estey pipe organ, with elec
,». *" ^*'*""'L?«T*Thlri^wn; I moVe'' AVenue'"W^^^ A meeting ot the Board of Village; . _.
!?:*'^..^r^^#'^S«™.^V^«Jl 'School were held in tbe church on On Monday night the Victor Clob j Trustees will be held on Tuesday even-! trie power, has been installed at Christ ^-tSd-at oTr?n;orthi's ; Monday evening The building was played a team from Oceanside. ing next. ; Church through^the jf-t-f t.^ Wc..
•»j, \up wwjr ^ "
son's Class. j Santa Claus while around him was
Do You Feel Bad. Marion Capenoff. [grouped a large number ot small child- I Mother's Gift. Leroy Hunt. j pen on the stage. The carols sung by
Song No. 38, School. j the children were well rendered, led
Offering. ; by \iigg Helen Jackson at the . piano.
.Missionary Exercise, Miss Stickle'8|The Christmas tree donated by Mr.
Coron and lighted by electric lights was very beautiful. An offering
A young daui?hter has arrived at ihe home of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Abrams. and Mr. Tredtvell D. Carpenter is quite proud of the distinction of being a grandad.
Next Friday (New Year's Day) be- n .. or, ^.n . .. r .- . ing a holiday, the Post Office will be Babr and Peter 0 Rourke, of Lynbrook. ^closed after 9:30. Tbe banks, the
¦" I newspaper office and most of the busi-
The funeral si-rvice of the late Mrs. I ness places will be closed all or part Belle C. Wiser, who died at the, home jof the day.
of het son, Victor B. Wiser, on Sun-;
day, Dec. 20th, was held at her late j Wor>l has been received by Mrs. residence on Wednesday last, the Rev.' Henry E. J. Schiffer of Roosevelt George Adams, D. D., pastor of St. ' Place of the death of her brother, E. James M. E. Church, officiating, with A. Fabricius, of Hollywood, Cal.
interment in Greenfield Cemetery, j
The deceased was in her 64th year, and ; Freeport Chapter No. 302, R. A. M., had been an invalid for many years. ' is looking for a large attendance at is
regular meeting, Wednesday, January
has ! ^' ^^^'^- ^^ '^'^ ^'""^ ^^^ Royal Arch
er on Sunday afternoon by the rector. R. F. Rebers Jr. and Miss .Maria Shan¬ non were the Godparents.
Miss Petrina |jurns is spending week in Newport, N. J.
the!
Solo, Grace Straubel. Drill, eight girls. Solo, Ijonisa Mitchell. Enter Santa Claus. Closing Song, Scbool.
ice.
H. H. Ganiinsnn is harvesting his
I George Johnson, son of Mr. and Mr«. I Peter Johnson, is at the Hempstead j Hospital. He was successfully oper- I ated on this week for a growth in the ' nose, by Dr. Dean of Freeport. He is j improving nicely and is expected home in a few days.
The local church ik attain this year I very prettily decorated with Christ- i mas greens. No city church looks j John G. Deubert has been contined handsomer. All those who had a band J to bis bed for several days, suffering in obtaining and preparing the greens j with a severe attack of pneumonia, which involves no small amount of real | At last report.s he was slowly improv- labor feel duly repaid when they see : ing. and bis maiiy^riends hope to see
amounting to $11.46 , was taken for | Missions. A'fnong the\ presents were i gifts to the pastor and Mrs. Braith | waite and also one to James M. Law- i rence, who has been janitor of the | church since its organization. Mr. i and Mrs. Braithwaite desire to thank i
"Maidens All Forlorn," a comedy,
will be presented at Parish Hall on
Wednesday evening, January 6th, by the Girl's Friendly Society.
The Lynbrook National Bank declared an annual dividend of six per cent. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the bank will be held on Tuesday, January 12th, when direct¬ ors for the ensuing year will be elected.
A dramatic reading of "Peg o' My Heart," will be given at the Clinton School^on January 27th by Miss Lois
Mrs. J. A. Blair, of Rockviile Centre, has
all those who joined in their Christmas | Secor. graduate of Le^an^ Powers ; ^ Wo^to ^r' jth^M
present and to wish to all their friends i School of Oratory, Boston, Mass a Happy New Year.
The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper will be administered in the church next Sunday morning and the pastor will preach both morning and evening.
North Village; announced the i Miss Mil-; Varney, ' ' SOD of the Rev P W Varney, pastor | . of the First M P Church of Lynbrook I We extend our congratulations to the ! happy young people.
Degree will be conferred upon two candidates, the entertainment commit* tee will have a program of refresh¬ ments, and the new officers will confer th« work. An invitation is extended to all Koyel Arch Masons residing or visiting in this vicinity.
"Opea House^'
New Year's Day
the general result.
I bim about soon.
n . . t- ., : ,^ ,-.. ,1 Perry Gangloff, son of Mr
Robert Ke,l IS m t.al.tor«.a engaged I j,i,„ / Qa^ioff, ,,ft last
in masonry work upon the buildings '
intended for the., Panama
snd will continue there an
opens.
Se buildings K„„r„i f„r Pittsfield, N. Y., .Exposition I j,i^ County, to visit r«lati til the l-airi ^j„ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^
and Mrs.
Saturday
Colum
ves- He
Tbe Donald Cammanns are leaving New York this week to remain for the rest of the winter in the South.
, William Lutz is again employed by I N. Meyer as a clerk in his store.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Seaman of Roslyn spent tbe Christmas holidays with relatives in the village.
Chas. Miller of Baldwin has finished
fliving the Parish House a coat of I ,„,. i, Z T" „^ » »
•-. J \r„« 'a7:..i,io« k .. i- 1 There will be motion pictures at
paint and Van Wicklen has supplied n- , tr n ^u- m -j ¦ u... vi _
Sew gutters and leaders upon ^he 5'"'r*".\*!"'' *"| ^^fT'*^.^.^*:^ church building. ! Year's night, at 8 o clodc. A good i show 18 oromisea.
The Men's Club basketball team ia scheduled to play the faat Red Sox team oi Rockviile Centre tonight Wed¬ nesday in the Parish House at 8.30. No need to say tbis will be a fast game as the prowess of the local team is well known and the Red Sox beat them on their last visit here by a large score. Admission 10 cents.
The Merrick Club will give the tirat of a series in a Lyceum courses in the JPire Hall tonight, Wednesday, at S o'clock. The attraction is the Hearon Sisters. Admission 25 cents. It is to be hoped tbat this course may be sufficiently sustained by the village to justify the Club in its efforts.
Tbe Christmas celebration of tbe Church Scbool was beld last night, Tuesday, in the Parish House but ow¬ ing to our early going to press this week on account of New Years Dav we cannot report the affair until our next issue.
I Amos «Nfiedermann, who resides at
! tbe Bellmore dock, was nearly frozen
i to death last Saturday night. A party
j of young men found him lying on the
sidewalk near Wolfe's drug store.
He was almost unconscious wben
found. He was taken to Firemen's
Hall, where be soon recovered. Later
j he started for his home, but had only
I got as far as William Brockman's
house on Bedford Avenue when be was
again overcome by the cold. 'He was
picked up by two young men, taken to
a nearby house and again revived,
after which he was escorted to bis
home.
The public scbool will reopen on Mon« day, January 4 after the Christmas vacation.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Seaman are visiting with Mrs. Seaman's parerwinter excursion of i The rooms will be thrown open to
the L. I. R. R.,to the City will be held i all brothers of these two organisations
on Saturday, January 9th. and their fraternal friends. Oppor-
' tunity will thus be provided for
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schorr of Mah- wab, N. ^3., are in town spending Christmas with Mrs. Schorr's mother, Mrs. Cheshire.
The Union Free School will open next Monday after the Christmas holi¬ days.
Valley Stream
Miss Gladys Abrams, and Miss Lydia j and be at home with us. Dean, both of Bel mar, N. J., and for- i
merly residents of this village, are 1 Rockviile Centre i^odge No. 279, spending the holidays in Valley Stream | 0. O. F. will attend divine sjrviee with their respective grandparents. !^ body at St. .Mark's M. E. Church (Sunday night. January 3. lyl.5.
Mrs. Robert M. Dibble and daugb-1 — ter. Miss Mabel, have returned from their trip to Vernon, Conn.
; ROCKVILLE CENTRE
I PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
' Rev. A. H. Rennie, Pastor
i The New Year's Motto for 1916 wi.l
I be given to the church next Sabbath
morning 10:30 a. m. The description j of the Ureal World-Kingdom Image ' will follow m the treatise on the Pro
I phecy of Daniel. . - . - ... ^.
i The New Year's Motto for 1915 will -P^ ^^'^ engagement of Miss Glays Mor- i be given to the "GoTo-Church Band" Ir's. of Rockviile Centre, to Wilbur J. I next Sabbath morning. , Wright, of Lynbrook.
{ Tbe Sabbath School will begin the {
Study of the New lessons taken from j "God" will be the lesson-sermon at
tbe Old Testament. We are asking j the Christian Science Church on Sun- I ••he parents to have th-jir children ¦ day next. j pr«»sent this and everv Sunday of the !
New Year at 2.30 p. m. ' Mr.-. M J
I Sabbath Evening—Y. P. S. C. E. i removed to the city for the remainder I "™« i Meeting 7.16 p. m. ! of ^he winter.
Sabbath Evening Preaching Service
The announcement hafi been made greeting old friends, making new ac¬ quaintances and in thia manner create a new interest in the organizations in¬ terested. For tbose present who de¬ sire to play games, tables, cards, dom- inos, etc., will be furnished. A com¬ missary committee of two, one mem¬ ber from each lodge, will provide suit- ________ able refreshments in the banquet hall.
Casey and daughter have j ^eaoy at all times for those desiring
7.45 p. m. "The tirst page of the New Year book- What have I Writ¬ ten?" Pastor's theme.
A cordial invitation ig extended to non-churchgoers to worship with us this New Year of 191.^. Come home
A short business meeting 4t| the ; Mechanics will occupy the earlier part .Mrs. George E. Hendrickson and ' of the evening and after routine busi- daughter have been spending a few j ness has been transacted the meeting days in the city. i will be adjourned, thus giving ample
_ . j time for all to enjoy themselves with
I the games.
; The committee in charge from the ^ -. |, 'Jr. O. 0. A. M. consists of James W.
Gets Verdict' ^^^^''^i''^-^-^^^'^y ^°'icision of Justice Kelby relative to the case ol Mrs. Mary La France against the City of New York. This ir> the last of a series of actions which Mrs. La France two years ago brought against various property owners of Merrick, claiming an undivided one-sixth inter¬ est in the property. The amount uf
Frank Smith. Gilson Peter Cokelet.
H. Raynor and
Frederick G. Miller bas been called as one of the trial jurors for the Janu¬ ary term.
L L R. R. Ends
Wooden Cars
, that taxes the wid^, wide world for I material. As usual, tbis wonderful I creation has been staged, and. afterl9 I weeks of tremendous success it is j about to be withdrawn to give way to I some lighter form of entertainment I for the early Spring season. I The last call has been sounded for those who would enjoy for some frac
costs and interest aggregates nearly ' .$7000.
j The point at issue arose over the construction of the will of Samuel I Smith, deceased, father of Chauncey I Smith, the question being whether un- : der the terms of the will, Chauncey I took a life estate with pow^r to dis¬ pose of the remainder or a simple life
Elks Charity Ball
The annual Charity Ball of Freeport I Lodge of Elks will be gives on New ' Year's Eve. Tbe committee in charge, I J. Huyler Ellison, Roland M. Lamb
and Bernard J. Loonom, is putting i forth every effort to make the affair
par excellence. Present indications
point to an attendance of more than ; four hundred.
Because of the natural attractive* i n'.ss of the Lodge it will not be neces- ; sarv to provide extra decorations, al- ; though the Christmas wreathe* and !hollywillbe hung suitably. On the
main floor of the Lodge a course din-
Tbe Long Island Railroad Company had notified the Public Service
/The fire companies meet next week ;for their monthly sessions; No. 2 on Monday in Headquarters on Camp Ave, and No. 1 on Tuesday in the Fire Hall. Ko. 2 is expecting to occupy its now home in course of erection in Febru¬ ary. Ab appropriate celebration will nfjrk tbe opening, possibly on Feb. 22Dd.
iyhSRotCaadkUte
for Town Clerk
tion of a two dollar bill the magnifi
Jerome Messina, barber at Firemen's Hall, will remove to Samuel Self's stord on Grand Avenue next Monday, where he will continue his barber busi¬ ness and also conduct a pool and bil-; —.-v" .r- :.-. , :- --—; izes wars oi ine w ono wm oe a; ^ -.h^r father Hiad in thp lifatimp
Hard parlor. He and his family will j "T"'"" *hat i is now complying with | ^^mory, and this most stupendous of I If' cLuncev Smi b ^nd therefore ms on tne nnner floor tbe terms of the Commission's order i „,^j^.i-, ^jn u-„. *-J1j ._.„ |0r Chauncey smitn. ana tnereiore
ma on tne upper noor. , ^_,. »;„,_ ^,. , j._ .„:. ;ilieciacies win nave i«aea "f^y- whatever interest her fatber had.
Therefore it behooves all who have ; ^^.^^^ ^j ^^e death of said Preston B.
Hiopodrome j g,^^^u ^^^ tbat inasmuch as Chauncey .„.„ k„ ^^ts,^„„t.u^ „„ (,„ ^i.:».-. -# engagements to | g^j^j^'^^.y ^^^ a life estate under ! *'i^^lf.\'l?,^TAt!.?„!';'! „f'!!^-5
Com- i ?>'••*!'.• ™"»«%'«n^ "^^K ^?} character-; anything pertaining to *^"" 11208 " Wars of the World will be - ' _. _ «•
occupy the rooms
O. Howard Tutbill, of Centre, the announcement
Rockviile of whose
Herman Lutz, a young Iwd, living witb his parents on Bellmore Avenue, was accidentally shot in Sunday afternoon with an a yonng boy living with John Pickle. Tbe boys were playing together when tbe accident ocearred. Dr. Skou at¬ tended the boy and it ia feared the lad will lose sight of the injurred eye.
, ' estate,
cent creation that cost more than i t, „ob the contention of Mrs L«
, $250,000 to stage. Little more than a I p^ ' r that the dSd liirned bv her ' °«'" '''" ^ '"^*^ "' "'*d"*Kht. Down- fortnight remains before the gaiety, | f/'hr>restiSB^.;ith^^^^^ '=»^»"^
er in er- pjjggtja of five^pieces will be one of
the best that can be secured.
The Lodge room on the second floor
to discontinue the use of wooden trail-|T'h™,;;; it"beboo"ve's al7 who ~ba7e !'''l*i*;*r 1"^^^^^ the dancing.^ At U
ercard in trains made up in p.rt of ^b^^,^ . trip to the Hiopodrome IV^l'?^''l^^Ltt^^l^T^^JZ'^^^^^^^^ the light.
steel cars. Compliance with the order ^^^^^ their holiday
w .„. -n...-..._ I a J .. ^ I o.n.1.. oH.y Lvw^ " '"^ ""'—""«-' the clock toll out the peals of remem-
.the will, that Mrs. La France beemne
.• on .u » .u°'\ '""';^ -*">¦- ^"^ , bas retired ttom the race in which be waa conced- •dly a favorite in the intereat of bis SOifXijf. He states tbat be will^ contin¬ ue aa poatmaater of Rockvill^ Centre until tike end of his term in 1916.
—Roekaway Timea.
sitor cares to invest—S2.00, $1.50, $1.00, 50 or 25 cents at night, or any (lart of $1.00 in the aftermwn'-but in return for that the buyer gets all tbat the investment of a quarter of a mil¬ lion dollars can give.
brance.
1 he funds derived from these events are devoted to regular Club charities.
Mr. Locas Wiatcrug in Freeport
Julian Lucas, of Greene Avemie,
ment baa given its approval of tbe ; been unable to do so. It therefore re
plans for an open lobby in tbe Sag | quested permission to continue the op
Harbor post office. Mr. Brown hopes i eration of tbe S8 wooden cars until new i u^ry 4th, 1916.
tbat other peetmasters will flnd it poa-. equipment could be purchased. This
sible to follow toia valuable innovation i application the Commi.tsion denied at
for the convenience of the patrons of j its meeting last week. Full compii-
the poet office. Be will render any j anee witb the order followed tbia ac-
aaaiatance in bis power. ' tion.
sui^s started two years ago, involving j this property. The title to the prop- j erty was inaureilby tbe Title Guaran¬ ty & Trust Company of Brooklyn, i Brooklyn, one of tbe few reiraining which corporation came to their rea-! sur vi vera of the Mexican War, is cue, and it paid Mrs. La Franee the {spending tbe winter months in Free- OAJkAnoi«l« i Bum of $18,000 for ber interest in said! port with his daughter. Mrs. J. Dyer.
VCCOiaWUC I premises. ! Mr. Lucas^ altboa«h well along in tbe
The City of New York apijealpdj eighties,is bale and energetic as a man from the judgment of Justice Kelby. j of twenty years younger. He is the
{The appeal waa argued before the Ap-j father of Thomaa W. Lucas, the well
Mrs. Cyril C. Hendrickson haa been 1 P«»**-« Division. Asaistaat Corpora-i known Railroad Avenue real estate spending tbe week as the guest of her t«on Coooeel Joun B. Shaonahao argued I and insarwiee brohei. brother, Benjamin Wright, at Verona, >n behalf of ^e city, and Mr. Levy j —— .
II. J. ! for Mra. La Prance. ; More FreOfOrt NOWS OB Poft 8
School will reopen, on Monday, Jan>